It really isn’t. Having emotions is not weak. Pretending like you don’t is weak. Expressing the emotions you have, processing them, letting them move through you, and moving on productively is not weak, it is strong. Shoving them down and the having them come out in other nonconstructive ways is not strong, it is avoidant. Allowing yourself to have emotions despite the judgement of others does not make you vulnerable, it means you are healthy and self-assured enough to support yourself emotionally.

heck compare the cost of labour 40 years ago to now

Except that, E = 1/2 m v^2. You can’t get rid of that m. All else being equal, lethality scales linearly with vehicle weight. The safety features that exist are still for the occupants; there are crumple zones for decelerating another vehicle hitting head on, not foam padding for protecting pedestrians. Some features of trucks are extra bad for impacts, but a heavy EV is going to be worse than the same frame with less mass.

Don’t need legislation. Simply needed mechanical sorting. Place barriers only reasonably-sized vehicles can fit through without being damaged. Added bonuses: traffic calming, driver competency testing.

Since currently I pay for roads in my property taxes AT THE SAME RATE AS EVERY MOTORIST, this would result in a tremendous household savings for me.

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The guy who thinks being delayed by a protest is tantamount to kidnapping and murdering is casting aspersions on other’s education.

If you’re just there a minute, there is a correspondingly small chance someone will come along and do something to the car that inconvenienced or endangered them. It all works out just fine. Roll the dice.

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citation required. maga is successful because fascism works. maga is successful because young white males are fuckign idiots.

Ice cream requires cruel and violent atrocity against intelligent creatures. Fuck ice cream.

I’m not sure what your point is supposed to be. Look, people become disabled and have to stop driving very, very frequently. People lose their earning ability and cannot afford to keep driving very, very frequently. I know you can’t wrap your head around it, but it’s not a fucking death sentence. It’s just a life change.

It’s remarkable how respectful you are of Arab views that you don’t also hold but which happen to be convenient for you.

Predicating your very survival on a privilege that you may not always be entitled to is hopefully something that will be bred out of the species in a few more generations.

You are hanging a LOT on “a person going to their window” and it shows how badly you want to see this from a certain perspective.

40 minutes you say well clearly you tried very seriously

Apparently you don’t do a lot of banking.

No, it doesn’t. You don’t have enough information to say something like that. Maybe the ATM fees they offer are the cheapest transaction fees in the city, and you are a customer who needs to optimize for transaction fee. Someone with those needs is going to prefer a bank that charges more for services that cost more to provide and offers a price break on services that are not as costly to provide.

The point isn’t that it’s not convenient. It’s that convenience is not a meaningful argument.